March 10 - Bad Bunny; Peter DeRose (The Musical Birthday Series, 8th Annual Cycle)

For previous March 10th posts, check here: John Bacchus Dykes (2019), Arthur Honegger (2020), Camillo Schumann (2021), Lorenzo da Ponte; Pablo de Sarasate (2022), Bix Beiderbecke; Dudley Buck (2023), Lorenzo da Ponte (2024), and John Bacchus Dykes (2025)

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Bad Bunny (b. 10 March 1994) is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer, record producer, and occasional professional wrestler.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You Lovely Island

Bad Bunny, a cultural beacon,

Is a passionate proud Puerto Rican;

He decided to go

To his Superbowl show

And sing in the language they speak in.

 

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No hablo español

Bad Bunny, on Superbowl night,

Gave a fright to America's Right;

Fox News called it clannish

To be rapping in Spanish,

And complained that the man wasn't White.

 

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Peter DeRose (10 March 1896 – 23 April 1953) was an American composer of jazz and pop music best known for "Deep Purple" and "A Marshmallow World."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parrish the Thought

"Deep Purple," as written by Peter ReRose,

   Was conceived for the piano, with words added later,

And that is the version that everyone knows,

   And the reason we're cheering DeRose its creator.

 

 

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March 9 - Samuel Barber; Phoebe Knapp (The Musical Birthday Series, 7th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for March 9 are found here:  Martin Shaw (2019), Samuel Barber (2020), Ornette Coleman; Samuel Barber (2021), Samuel Barber; Josef Mysliveček (2023), Samuel Barber (2024), and Samuel Barber (2025)

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Samuel Barber (9 March 1910 – 23 January 1981) was an important American composer in all the major classical genres.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Never Say Can't

However, Briselli was disappointed when he received the third movement from Barber; according to Barber, his reasons were that "1st, he could not safely learn it for January; 2nd, it was not violinistic; 3rd, it did not suit musically the other two movements, it seemed to him rather inconsequential." -- Wikipedia, s.v. "Violin Concerto (Barber)"

When Briselli declared the concerto unplayable,

And Barber said words then considered unsayable,

The concerto was played by another performer

Whose reaction was friendlier, braver, and warmer.

And then the concerto that Briselli had slandered

Was quickly endorsed as a repertoire standard.

 

 

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Phoebe Knapp (9 March 1839 –10  July 1908) was an American composer of music for hymns and an organist. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Is Her Story

 

She composed the music for over five hundred hymn.  -- Wikipedia 

The hymns of Phoebe (Palmer) Knapp,

   Though "Blessed Assurance" was one of them,

Have largely fallen off the map,

   In spite of her writing a ton of them.

 

 

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March 8 - Carlo Gesualdo; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (The Musical Birthday Series, 8th Annual Cycle)

Previous entries for March 8th may be read here: C. P. E. Bach (2019), Alan Hovhaness (2021), Carlo Gesualdo,  Carlo Gesualdo (2022), Carlo Gesualdo; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (2023), and Franco Alfano; Bendix Friedrich Zinck; Gottfried Wilhelm Fink (2024)

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Carlo Gesualdo (probably 8 March 1566 – 8 September 1613) was an Italian composer who wrote some of the most intensely expressive and dissonant music of the Renaissance. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh crudele!

 

From the Gesualdo clan there arose a

Prince with the skills to compose a

Body of works

Which had voice-leading quirks

That confounded the court of Venosa. 

 

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788) was an influential German composer composer, and a son of J. S. Bach. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Doing What Comes Naturally

When freed from the musical text,

And ad-libbing whatever came next,

C.P.E., so we're told,

Grew increasingly bold,

And his affects increasingly vexed.

 

 

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